Word: baptiste
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Among the tribes that jealously rule the steep hills flanking the Assam Valley on India's strategic northeast frontier, none are so colorfully and fiercely independent as the Nagas. Nearly half a century of British law and the influence of U.S. Baptist missionaries have moderated their fondness for lopping off neighbors' heads, but the Nagas have never swerved from their desire to be King of the Mountains. After the British pulled out of India, the Indian government offered the Nagas tribal autonomy under New Delhi. Replied a Naga spokesman: "White man was never king over us. Now black...
Andrew Allen, 52, is a precise and practical man, with a windburned complexion and a flat drawl; he became Sunday school secretary of the Texas Baptist Convention in 1949, and since then has worked out his own theory of how to do his job. "Small units," he says crisply. "The small unit concept is what has built the Texas Sunday school system, and Sunday school is our best evangelistic opportunity. You build a church by building the Sunday school. When you reach people in Sunday school and teach them the Bible, you get the money; they want to expand...
With Dr. William L. Howse of Nashville, an official of the Southern Baptist Convention, Allen has begun a three-week tour to expound his Sunday school building ideas to Japanese Baptists, also plans to conduct clinics and conferences in Hong Kong, Java, Korea and the Philippines under the sponsorship of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and the Southern Baptist Convention...
...business life. They also have to see the importance of many rooms. You can't reach a five-year-old girl in the same room with a 50-year-old man. If they follow our advice, they can't help growing." Japan now has 65 Southern Baptist churches and about 8,000 members. Allen says confidently that with Texas Baptist techniques the Japanese can have 1,000 churches and 100,000 members within the next 25 years...
...pulled alongside him three times to force him into the curb, until he shook it by turning into a side street and dousing his lights. City Editor Charles Moore went to cover an out-of-town Klan meeting, was punched and chased away. While covering a basketball game, Baptist Minister L. B. Ballard, who is the News's church editor and assistant sports editor, had the rear tires of his car slashed. On his way home, after getting them fixed, two cars pursued him in an attempt to run him off the road...